Job summary
Are you an enthusiastic, motivated and committed pharmacist? If so we would like you to join our mental health pharmacy team!

You will need to have the skills to be able to work within the wider multi-disciplinary team of nurses and doctors and other allied healthcare professionals and managers. You will want to develop and improve the reliability and quality of our clinical pharmacy service. You will need to have specific experience working with pharmacy teams and patients within the mental health setting. You will want to reach targets set by the Trust and by the pharmacy service. You must be self-motivated and able to motivate others.

Our dynamic and creative ELFT pharmacy team provides pharmacy services to a wide range of community and inpatient service users in Luton and Bedfordshire, City and Hackney, Newham and Tower Hamlets. This includes children and young people to adults of working age, older adults, and forensic patients.

Main duties of the job

• To support and coordinate a comprehensive clinical pharmacy and medicines management service to the City and Hackney and forensic directorates.
• To ensure the provision of a high quality, responsive and patient centred pharmacy service to all patients within the directorate by implementing and monitoring the Trust's clinical pharmacy standards.
• To attend directorate management meetings including Safety and inpatient management meetings.
• To represent the Directorate at Trust-wide meetings.
• To manage audit and quality improvement projects for the City and Hackney and forensic service pharmacy alongside the lead pharmacist.
• To support the clinical pharmacists and medicines management technicians in their delivery of the clinical service.
• To attend regional clinical pharmacy network groups and network and feedback with initiatives.
• To ensure the effective day to day management of the Trust Medicines Information service. (this service is currently under review)
• To attend and contribute to the Trust Senior Pharmacy Managers meetings.
• To attend and contribute to the Trusts medicines committee.
• To contribute to ELFT Independent Prescribing and Education & Training strategy.
• To deputise for the Lead Pharmacist in his or her absence.

About us
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Essential qualifications

• Masters Degree in Pharmacy
• Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council and/or Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Psychiatric qualification or significant experience in psychiatry

Desirable qualifications

• Supplementary or Independent Prescriber (or willing to work towards this)

Essential knowledge

• Up to date knowledge of current white papers/ national/ government reports affecting psychiatry
• Drugs used in psychiatry.
• Aware of effect of political changes on healthcare
• Sound knowledge of drug management of Mental Health disorders including national guidance
• Clinical and critical appraisal skills
• Able to influence all grades of medical staff
• Evidence in writing procedures, clinical guidelines and policy/protocols.
• The ability to identify and prioritise clinical work load
• Communicates with medical, nursing and pharmacy staff in clear precise and appropriate manner.
• To have an awareness of national and local priorities
• The ability to identify and manage risks
• Ability to evaluate own work
• Enhances the quality of patient care
• Demonstrates awareness of the clinical governance agenda
• Teaching and presentation skills
• Able to work as part of team or alone
• Shows empathy towards patients' needs

Essential experience

• Proven experience of good performance in previous posts, where relevant
• Demonstrate ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate medicine related information to Mental Health patients, carers and clinical staff
• Previous evaluated experience of mentorship
• Setting objectives and appraisal techniques
• Clinical Audit.

Desirable experience

• Monitoring and advising on drug expenditure
• Working in a community setting.

Essential other

• Works calmly under pressure.
• Understands and shows commitment to continuing personal development.
• Be able to achieve objectives.
• Able to use initiative and show appropriate level of self reliance.
• Friendly personality; helpful to other staff and patients.
• Adaptable
• Demonstrates ability to meet set targets
• Demonstrate ability to organise self in order to ensure efficient use of time.
• Self motivated
• The ability and willingness to deputise for senior staff while recognising limitations of experience and ability
• Takes responsibilities for own actions

Desirable other

• Own car and full driver's license.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Contact
Lead Pharmacist for City and Hackney: Susana Fontelo, s.fontelo@nhs.net, 02085107250

Employer website: https://www.elft.nhs.uk/